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This New Category of
Antique
Books is created by popular demand. Our best and long-lasting customers
are investors/traders who read a lot, a lot of books on a lot of topics.
These selected items are mainly from family libraries, not in brand new
condition, but in Very Good Collectible Condition. One Copy Only on
First-Come-First-Sold basis.
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STRAUSS' NEW LIFE OF
JESUS by David Friderich Strauss. Authorized Translation in two
volumes, 2nd Edition, published by Williams and Norgate , 1879. Both
hardcovers in reasonably good condition, though Volume One requires
re-binding, Volume Two is tightly bound. A stamp showing "Shakespear and
Company, Kilometer Zero Paris" appears on the inside front cover in both
volumes. Sandy stains are shown on inside covers and the last few
pages. All the contents (439 pages in Vol. 1, 440 pages inVol.2) are
complete with no markings or foldings. This collector's item has to be
sold as a two-volume set. |
US$225/HK$1755 |
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND, ALICE
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
by Lewis Carroll.
This is a collective item for Young People, Item 836 on Everyman's Library
Series, published by J.M. Dent & Sons, London, 1952. Pocket-size hardcover
of 335 pages |
US$25/HK$195 |
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CHINESE CHARACTERS,
Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classication and Signification
by Dr.L. Wieger, S.J.
Second Ed., Enlarged and Revised, 1965. Softcover 820 pages
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US$49/HK$382 |
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QUEEN VICTORIA, From
her birth to the death of the Prince Consort
by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Hardcover of 486 pages, published by Alfred A. Knope,NY, 1972. |
US$65/HK$507 |
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IBERIA: Spanish Travels and Reflections
by James A. Michener with Photographs by Robert Vara
This is the 1968 First
Printing, reprinted in Taiwan. Green cloth-binding Hardcover of
818 pages.
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US$50/HK$390 |
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INDIA: A Modern History by
Percival Spear
First print 1961, published by The University of Michigan
Press. Dark cloth-binding Hardcover of 491 pages
of contents plus 19 pages of Index, all clean and tidy. |
US$65/HK$507 |
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THE TREE OF CULTURE by Ralph Linton
This is the 1955 First Print. Published by Alfred A.
Knopf, Inc., New York. Dark cloth-binding Hardcover of 692 pages of
contents plus 16 pages of Index, all clean and tidy.
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US$85/HK$663 |
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THE ARTS OF KOREA: An Illustrated History
by Evelyn McCune
First Printing, 1962. Published by the Charles E.
Tuttle Company of Tokyo-Japan. Printed in Japan on fancy art-paper.
HEAVY Volume of 451 pages with beautiful coloured and b/w pictures, and
with a shiny dust-cover.
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US$90/HK$702 |
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INDONESIA: From The Art of the World Series
by Frits A. Wagner
First Published in 1959, Reprinted 1962 in Holland.
Hardcover of 263 pages with coloured pictures pasted on (detachable). A
beautiful book that comes with a slip-case.
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US$60/HK$468 |
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A Handbook to
THE ESSAYS OF Michel de Montaigne which includes the Notes Upon
the Text of the Translation by George B. Ives and a series of Comments
Upon the Essays by Grace Norton to accompany Mr. Ives' translation.
Cloth-binding hardcover. Published by The Heritage Press, 1946. Book has
been well kept in very good condition in a family library. (We also have
the Complete Set of 2 Volumes of The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, each
at US$50). |
US$50/HK$390 |
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IN DARKEST AFRICA,
TWO VOL. SET, by Henry M. Stanley with maps. Leather Bound - with
faded gold imprint of author's name and shape of Africa on front cover.
Binding still tight, though re-binding is recommended. All inside pages
(547 pages in Vol.1, and 540 pages in Vol.2) are clean and tidy with no
markings. Only a family stamps was printed on the inside front cover.
First Print by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York in 1891. An out-of-print
collector's item. Must be sold as a 2-Vol. Set. |
US$275/HK$2145 |
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JANE EYRE
by Charlotte Bronte
(This is the 1942 Heritage Press cloth-binding hardcover of 431 pages all
clean and tidy, with Lithographs by Barnett Freedman in beautiful colours) |
US$50/HK$390 |
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THE CONGRESS OF
VIENNA by Harold Nicolson
(This is the Cassell History
Edition, 1989. ISBN 0-304-31863-9. Printed and bound in Great Britain by
Biddles Ltd., Guifford. Softcover of 312 pages all clean and tidy.)
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US$22/HK$172 |
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EAST ASIA THE MODERN
TRANSFORMATION: A Scholarly, Concise, and Eminently Readable History of
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian Civilization since the
19th century
by John K. Fairbank, Edwin
O. Reischauer and Albert M. Craig (This is a heavy volume of 955 pages.
First printing (Modern Asia Edition), 1965. Printed in Japan. Dark
cloth-binding hardcover with golden inscriptions, and with dust-cover.)
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US$75/HK$585 |
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NICHOLAS AND
ALEXANDRA: An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall
of Imperial Russia by Robert K. Massie
(This is the 1967 hardcover
of 584 pages. Reprinted in Taiwan. Red cloth-binding with dust-cover.
Sandy edges due to age and paper quality.)
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US$25/HK$195 |
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD
GIBBON
as originally edited by Lord Sheffield
Oxford University Press, 1959. The World's Classics Series No.139.
Pocket-size Hardcover of 340 pages. A collector's item. |
US$39/HK$304 |
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THE VARIETIES OF HISTORY from Voltaire to the Present
Edited, Selected and Introduced by Fritz Stern. Meridian Softcoverof 428
pages |
US$15/HK$117 |
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THE NEW FACE OF
BUDDHA: Buddhism and Political Power in Southeast Asia
by Jerrold
Schecter
Published by John Weatherhill, Inc.,
Tokyo, 1967
Softcover of 300 pages
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US$25/HK$195 |
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AMERICAN FOLK ART
IN WOOD, METAL AND STONE
by Jean Lipman
With 183 illustrations and four color
plates
Published by Dover Publications, Inc.,
New York, 1972
Large Size (8.5” x 11”) Softcover of 193 pages in Large
Print |
US$32/HK$250 |
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THE PENGUIN ATLAS
OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY by
Colin McEvedy
Maps drawn by John Woodcock
Published by Penguin Books, 1961. Now
out-of-print.
Softcover (8.75” x 7”) of 96 pages with
maps in colour |
US$25/HK$195 |
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NARRATIVES OF EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE
By John
Charles Fremont, Edited with an introduction by
Allan Nevins
Published by
Longmans, Green & Co., New York. First Edition
1956.
Hardcover of 532 pages,
all clean and tidy. Sandy DJ and edges due to age.
Dark-cloth binding still
holds tight. |
US$75/HK$585 |
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